Doomsday Asteroid Apophis is Now More Massive
Astronomers following the so-called doomsday asteroid Apophis have found that the rock is much larger than previously assumed. Since the asteroid could hit Earth in...
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Complex Life Requires the Right Amount of Killer Asteroids
Asteroids: Balancing Life and Destruction Asteroids have long been viewed as potential planetary annihilators, capable of bombarding worlds with fire and molten rock. However, recent...
Top 50 Topics Where Skeptics Had to Eat Their Words
Top 50 Topics on Which Skeptics Were Proven Wrong Skepticism is crucial for scientific progress, but sometimes skeptics are just flat out wrong. Here...
Organism Survival in a Post-Apocalypse Blackout
During periods of catastrophic darkness caused by natural catastrophes such as asteroid impacts, massive volcanic eruptions, or large-scale wildfires, life on Earth survived with the...
Earth Reboot in the Event of Disaster
Here is the outline from the meeting of the Human Survival Authority, Department of Space Exploration and Planetary Defense on an earth reboot in the...
State Secrets to Prevent Human Extinction
Here is the outline from the meeting of the Human Survival Authority, Department of Education and Knowledge Transfer on state secrets use for prevention of...
Human Survival Authority, Reports by Department
Within the Human Survival Authority, a futurist world organization working to save the human species, are formed ten eleven departments organized by existential risks they...
95 Times Scientific Consensus Was Wrong
Scientific consensus evolves over time as new evidence is gathered. Unsurprisingly, there are periods of time when initial scientific discoveries or ideas face significant skepticism...
Did a Gamma Ray Burst Cause the Ordovician Extinction?
There is currently no scientific consensus on the cause of the late Ordovician mass extinction–one of the five biggest in Earth’s history–approximately 440 million years...
Projections: The Longest the Earth Might Support Human Life
There are multiple projections by scientists and researchers regarding how long the Earth could potentially support human life. However, it is essential to note that...